Quote Originally Posted by eesakiwi View Post
Don't work on the CRTscreen until you have devacumed it.

Do that with glasses & safety gear & grab the little circut board plugged onto the end of the CRT.
Wiggle it around a bit, if you are lucky you may break the little glass pigtail in the centre of the pins.
When that happens you will hear the air get sucked into the tube.
Once thats finished its safe to work on.
If it dosn't break the pigtail, remove the board & tap the pigtail sideways with a hammer or maybe using a flat screwdriver against the pigtail & tapping it with a hammer.



CRT TV tubes are **** dangerous when they have a vacum in them.
If you don't think so, you haven't had one explode on you yet.
Nothing explodes. It implodes. Completely different.